Title: Encoding problem (uft-8)
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Encoding problem (uft-8)

 *  [tipsuli_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tipsuli_/)
 * (@tipsuli_)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-uft-8/)
 * I have encoding problem with my site ([http://mysticdiaries.net](http://mysticdiaries.net))
 * Day before yesterday everything was fine, but now some characters shows incorrectly(
   ä,ö, etc) but only in some posts and sidebar.
 * I haven’t made any changes to theme or settings (not that I remember), so where’s
   the problem and why it came out of nowhere?
 * Can someone offer me some help, I really don’t know where the problem is.
 * I have meta tag
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=
   utf-8″ />
 * and database is using also uft-8, so what can I do to fix this?

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-uft-8/#post-2454943)
 * Validation shows this
 * > Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 4 it contained
   > one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes
   > found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check
   > both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.
   > The error was: utf8 “\xE4” does not map to Unicode
 *  Thread Starter [tipsuli_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tipsuli_/)
 * (@tipsuli_)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-uft-8/#post-2454983)
 * Ok, I have no idea what that means. My english sucks, so can you please tell 
   me what to do? 🙂 In simple terms.
 *  [tempor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tempor/)
 * (@tempor)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-uft-8/#post-2455030)
 * To answer your question, the **“\xE4”** that **kmessinger** is reffering to is
   the representation of a character which does not exist. (PHP is semantically 
   like C).
 * So when the identification for the encoding is taking place the unknown **“\xE4”**
   is telling the engine that this is a an unknown encoding.
 * I checked the validation for your site but I haven’t received a: “The error was:
   utf8 “\xE4″ does not map to Unicode” error. A good start would be to experiment
   by going [here](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmysticdiaries.net%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [tempor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tempor/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-uft-8/#post-2455030)
 * Status: not resolved

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